Best Southwestern Style Slow Cooker Red Chicken Chili Recipes

SOUTHWESTERN STYLE CHICKEN CHILI

Steps:

• Heat oil in large pot over medium/high heat and add onions, cook for about 5 minutes, stirring.
• Add garlic and red peppers, cook for 2 minutes more.
• Add chicken and brown on all sides and then add the spices and stir to coat the chicken evenly.
• Add tomatoes, beans, canned chilies, lime juice, and corn and bring to a boil.
• Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Ladle into bowls and top with sour cream, onion and cilantro.
• **This can be made in the slow cooker!

SOUTHWEST CHICKEN CHILI

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil. Transfer to a 3-qt. slow cooker. Add the ham hock, beans, broth, chilies, onion and seasonings. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or until ham is tender. , Remove ham bone. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bone; discard bone. Cut meat into bite-size pieces and return to slow cooker. Serve with sour cream if desired.

SOUTHWESTERN CHICKEN CHILI- THE GREATEST CROCK POT RECIPE EVER!

Steps:

• Put rinsed kidney beans on the bottom of the slow cooker.
• Next add corn niblets.
• Place 1/2 the chili Powder on top of the corn and beans.
• Pile on the chicken slices.
• Pour in tomatoes.
• Cover with remaining chili powder.
• Add the onion last as it is the softest thing in there.
• I cook mine for about 6 hours on High.
• It depends on how you like yours, six hours gets all the juices to almost a sauce like consistency.
• If you want a more runny chili cook it for 5 hours.
• 10 minutes before you serve it, put it in bowls and add tortilla chips and monterey jack cheese on top of it.
• Serve with cornbread.

SLOW-COOKED SOUTHWEST CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a 2- or 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the beans, broth, tomatoes, chicken, salsa, corn and seasonings. Cover and cook on low 3-4 hours or until a thermometer inserted in chicken reads 165°., Shred chicken with 2 forks and return to slow cooker; heat through. Serve over rice. If desired, serve with lime wedges and fresh cilantro. Freeze option: After shredding chicken, freeze cooled mixture in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally; add a little broth or water if necessary.